Hi WiZARD... Nope... my logging system works fine. It's set to a preference number of days. The log file grows until the limit is reached. Then the first visitor that pushes the log over the number of days triggers a routine that slices off the oldest day. From that point on the log does not grow larger than the preference number of days. It will grow or decrease slightly depending on how many visitors there are on a given day, but that is no problem.

At any rate, my question is about the amount of time it takes to append a new text line (a line of log) to a text file. Does the size of the file make any significant difference in the open, append, close operation?

Currently my website log file is set to 30 days. In that time it grows to about a half gig... hence my concern about how long it takes to add a line. If I set it for 10 days, it would be a much smaller line... however, if I set it for 100 days... would that really slow things down??? You get the drift...